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Conservative media personality Craig Bushon address to a state meeting of the Texas Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC), Sep. 30, 2012, at the Holiday Inn in Austin, Texas.
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and I was a radio talk show host show
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locally on 1370 a.m. 96.3 FM before that
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the big talker and before that ESPN and
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then before that out in Southern
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California many years ago launched in
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about 1999 and bfim be first in media
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the fist is that's kind of one of our
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logos that we use you know because it's
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the fist has been used for many many
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generations all over the world for the
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fight and locally here you can see as
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close as the black panthers movement or
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in Russia you could see it with the iron
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fist of of Communism and but it's also
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been used for the fight for the people
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who are the least represented it's the
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fight for uh the revolutions and uh so
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we kind of use it as a fun little spoof
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in some cases but also to let people
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know that there is a fight going on
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right now traditional media as you know
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does not show
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up traditional media is not you know
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freedom of the press in this country is
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a big deal and I've had Jerry Patterson
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on my show more than once I had the
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lieutenant governor on and Ted Cruz when
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they had the big fight going on uh with
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the biggest upset in history in the
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state of
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Texas the
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wealthiest really Mo the most powerful
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seat legislative seat in the state is
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that senate seat uh
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and we have a lieutenant governor that
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had a lot of money he's a he's a good
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man a nice man as far as that goes I
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don't go home and have barbecues with
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him but he seems like a nice man
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uh but we saw big power Brokers running
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against really the uh the tea party
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slash independent slash I'm pissed off I
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don't want to take it anymore people who
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showed up and and Ted Cruz won that's a
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paradigm shift but here's what's
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interesting
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afterwards I was just at an event with
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uh Jason Isaac and uh some people in
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here were there and there was 450 50
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people there and it was in
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Driftwood Ted Cruz was there Jason
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Isaac that was his event his third
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annual
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barbecue zero
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press
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none and the and the fact is I've been
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in the media a while and you know M of
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the press and a good friend of mine
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Texas Insider Jim cardle and go on the
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house floor and the senate floor all
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that stuff's you know great but none of
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it gets to you you really don't know
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what you don't know you think you know
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what you know but you really don't
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know real time uh on the ground
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reporting is is not there anymore being
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first is kind of a a slap at everyone
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wants to be first right on Fox News at
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MSNBC MSN uh NBC ABC man all the I mean
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there's so many acronyms of media out
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there it's hard to even keep them
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straight
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anymore but being first to us is not
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being first first one there to give you
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the bad information or the wrong
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information is to be first with the
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facts to be first with the information
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that's relative to you and your
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community most politics is important
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closest to
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home and the hardest po the hardest
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information to get is closest to home
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Heck if I want to know what's going on
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with uh uh in National I can just turn
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on all the different media sources and I
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can find that out but what's happening
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right here in this neighborhood where
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you go
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we counted I remember I was with one of
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my other children and we sat 22 negative
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stories on the local news and it was car
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crashes and people breaking in houses
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and someone getting uh busted for this
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or that or maybe there's a storm brewing
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somewhere but nothing really important
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about getting everybody close together
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getting you true information like now in
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politics these races are a big deal
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obviously having Jerry Patterson here
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you know it' be interesting to get his
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thoughts on
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how he would
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govern now that he sees what's happened
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to the lieutenant
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governor how is it going to change the
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face of politics but here's my I'll say
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this in closing because I could go on
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because it's it's a long
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story but the fact of the matter is you
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and I need to know real time information
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from the most factual
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sources and the only way we we can do
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that is be at the event bam right there
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in real time uploaded in real time so I
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can pull it on my phone I can pull it on
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my tablet I can watch in real time the
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youth in the
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room they laugh at the you're over 40
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they laugh at the way we look at media
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they this is that this is this is how
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they
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think that's old
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heck some people still pull out the
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paper my neighbor across the street I'm
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like Mark that happened
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yesterday I asked the people in the room
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younger people in the room how do you
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get your news what channel do you listen
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to what channel do you watch huh like go
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on the computer get it right then
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instantaneously right
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instantaneous just like it's in a rhythm
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so it's all in a rhythm so what we're
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doing with be first and media is getting
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this new Rhythm this new pulse
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okay and we're going to help build you
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know citizen uh uh journalists we have
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media packs that teach people how to
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sell their own media how do they support
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themselves hardest thing in this
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industry is to make money because as
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soon as you say hey I'm for something oh
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well I can't back that because I have a
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business and I got to be good for
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everybody so you have it's a specific
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way to stay in that Rhythm too so I I
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just we have cards up here uh we have
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other shirts besides the one with the
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fist but please watch what we're doing
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like us on Facebook uh anyone who's out
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there that you know that that does a lot
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of stuff on Facebook or Twitter or uh
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wants to get into uh
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journalism or has a story to tell we've
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even opened up portals where we can give
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you a specific username and password to
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submit
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articles with your opinion and then with
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the facts that are behind it and then we
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can put it out there and I'll say this
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go back to September 13th
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and look at what we did we have our own
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oliv Norths if you will uh people who
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are bfim Media
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Insiders and what you're just figuring
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out right now or what you're just being
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told right now from the mainstream
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medium media about what happened in the
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Middle East blamed on a 14-minute film
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that we now apologize for immensely
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through Secretary of State and the
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president of United States in your
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name sorry we hurt your feelings
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we had a story on there that told the
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real story the next day in real time
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because we didn't have to go through all
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the filters that you see in the media
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world and that's what freedom of the
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press is
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about getting the right people that have
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the right information sourcing it making
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sure it's as good as you can get it and
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getting it out there and so uh we're
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always uh looking for other people to be
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involved always looking for people who
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have something to say there's no
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particular party
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that it's that it's accustomed to that
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it's designed for I am a conservative as
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a delegate for the State of
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Texas okay I get involved I get my hands
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dirty I push back I push back enough
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that I do broadcasting and I'll push
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back on it and I suspect all of you
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aren't afraid to pushing back either and
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that's that push back that's going to
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actually take back what's been taken
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from us and that's the
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Republic and you're here on purpose
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that's a fantastic thing when people
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debate whether it's Li Arian or you know
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GOP Republican that grand old party
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whether it's
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Democrat whether it's God only knows
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what the next one will be with the Next
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Generation the good news is listen to
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what people are saying and pay attention
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to what they're saying write it down and
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then hold them accountable the biggest
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thing we can do and I'll say this in
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closing the reason we need to vote and I
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tell everybody is this is so we have the
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ability to recall and
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impeach and when you don't vote you have
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no power to do either so there's no such
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thing as a rebellion in a free republic
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if we don't all vote I would love to see
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100% of the people vote but vote
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intelligently but then when you do vote
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no you have the power to say you
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lied and then you can recall them or you
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can impeach them and that's why I like
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to see young people get engaged know
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that there's some fight left in this
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country and that it's not something that
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is easily won and that's the ability to
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free vote in this representative
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Republic so thank you so much that's my
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10 minutes I think
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